Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | Lay of the Last Minstrel |
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | | BREATHES 1 there the man, with soul so dead, | |
| Who never to himself hath said, | |
| ‘This is my own, my native land!’ | |
| Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned, | |
| As home his footsteps he hath turned, | 5 |
| From wandering on a foreign strand? | |
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| O Caledonia! stern and wild, | |
| Meet nurse for a poetic child! | |
| Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, | |
| Land of the mountain and the flood, | 10 |
| Land of my sires! what mortal hand | |
| Can e’er untie the filial band, | |
| That knits me to thy rugged strand!… | |
| | | Note 1. Walter Scott. ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’. Cant. vi. [back] | | |
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